Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer
Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer

Author: Michael Fleishman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-01-13

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1581159323

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Technology has sent shockwaves of change through the world of commercial art. Digital illustration and design, online portfolio sites, and the proliferation of stock art have radically changed the way that illustrators and graphic designers work. What has not changed, however, is the wealth of illustrators and graphic designers hoping to turn their talent into freelance success. More than ever, artists face questions such as how to get started, how to sell their work, how to promote themselves, and what to do once they are working. For those embarking on freelance careers in illustration or graphic design, the answers have arrived. A twenty-five year veteran in the field, Michael Fleishman, has detailed every business aspect of commercial art in Starting Your Career as a Freelance Illustrator or Graphic Designer.

How to Start a Home-based Graphic Design Business
How to Start a Home-based Graphic Design Business

Author: Jim Smith

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-12-17

Total Pages: 169

ISBN-13: 1493006843

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This book will include all the information you need to get started at home with your own graphic design business. To expand the focus of this subject matter, we plan on including information on designing blogs, apps, and the like to take this book a step ahead of the competition.

The Business Side of Creativity
The Business Side of Creativity

Author: Cameron S. Foote

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 9780393730937

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Every year the market for creative services expands -- but the competition is increasing even faster. Today, your success hinges not on talent alone, but on a thorough understanding of the business side of creativity. Now fully revised and updated, The Business Side of Creativity is the most comprehensive business companion available to freelance graphic designers, art directors, illustrators, copywriters, and agency or design-shop principals. Cameron S. Foote, successful entrepreneur and editor of the Creative Business newsletter, guides you step-by-step through the process of being successfully self-employed -- from getting launched as a freelancer to running a multiperson shop to retiring comforably. The appendices include sample business forms and documents to help put the information into practice. How should you organize? What should you charge? What marketing techniques yield the best returns? When are you ready to expand? What are the most effective strategies for managing employees? How can you build salable equity? The Business Side of Creativity delves into these questions and hundreds more -- and gives you practical, real-world answers. Book jacket.

Creative Strategy and the Business of Design
Creative Strategy and the Business of Design

Author: Douglas Davis

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-06-14

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1440341559

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"The Business Skills Every Creative Needs! Remaining relevant as a creative professional takes more than creativity--you need to understand the language of business. The problem is that design school doesn't teach the strategic language that is now essential to getting your job done. Creative Strategy and the Business of Design fills that void and teaches left-brain business skills to right-brain creative thinkers. Inside, you'll learn about the business objectives and marketing decisions that drive your creative work. You already have the creativity; now it's time to gain the business insight. Once you understand what the people across the table are thinking, you'll be able to think how they think to do what we do." -- Provided by publisher.

Grid Systems in Graphic Design
Grid Systems in Graphic Design

Author: Josef Müller-Brockmann

Publisher: Verlag Niggli AG

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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From a professional for professionals, here is the definitive word on using grid systems in graphic design since 1981.

How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm
How to Start and Operate Your Own Design Firm

Author: Albert W. Rubeling

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2010-06-29

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 158115805X

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Want to make it big on Broadway—as a techie? Or how about working in smaller regional theater? Careers in Technical Theater explains more than twenty different careers from the perspective of successful theater artists. Included are specialties that have been around for decades, as well as those still emerging in the field. Concise information is provided on job duties, estimated earnings, recommended training, examples of career paths, and the insights are given of working pros in management, scenery, audio/visual, costumes, video and projection, engineering, and theatrical systems. There’s even a detailed appendix on finding on-the-job training as an intern, apprentice, or paid worker. For anyone interested in a behind-the-scenes life in the theater,Careers in Technical Theater is a priceless resource. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.